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Phone dropped in water

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  • 26-10-2012 5:28pm
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    mel.b
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    So i dropped my phone (samsung galaxy) in the toilet this morning :( i was able to rescue it quickly (about 20sec). My phone was on at the time. I immediately took the back case off and dried it all and then put the battery back in amd turned it in, not realising this was the worst thing to do. It turned on and then appeared to freeze, so i took the back off again and there was more water there :( so i dried it all off again amd then went and bought some rice. It has been sitting in the rice all day ontop of a radiator.

    Tonight i put the battery back in and it turned on, but froze on the galaxy screen. About 6 or 7min later now the screen has turned green and is flickering with lines all over it. I can just make out the galaxy logo.

    So i'm guessing now that my phone is dead and there's no way back for it?


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    eyescreamcone
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    mel.b wrote: »
    So i dropped my phone (samsung galaxy) in the toilet this morning :( i was able to rescue it quickly (about 20sec). My phone was on at the time. I immediately took the back case off and dried it all and then put the battery back in amd turned it in, not realising this was the worst thing to do. It turned on and then appeared to freeze, so i took the back off again and there was more water there :( so i dried it all off again amd then went and bought some rice. It has been sitting in the rice all day ontop of a radiator.

    Tonight i put the battery back in and it turned on, but froze on the galaxy screen. About 6 or 7min later now the screen has turned green and is flickering with lines all over it. I can just make out the galaxy logo.

    So i'm guessing now that my phone is dead and there's no way back for it?

    Put it into a bag of rice for a day or two


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    Son0vagun
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    Pop it in a bag of rice and place it in your hot press for 24hrs. If that doesn't work then it's dead.


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    mel.b
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    It's been in rice in a warm place for about 8hrs today. I'll put it back in and leave it overnight and see how it is tomorrow.


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    kirving
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    Give it a few days anyway. Turning it on was the worst thing to do but at lease it still turned on. Hopefully a bad electrical connection confused it.


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    mel.b
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭mel.b


    Bummer :( phone still is turning on, but freezes after that. Guess i need to buy a new phone


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    double GG
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    Make sure it's uncooked rice not creamed rice :P

    Yeah turning it on was a pretty bad idea, keep drying it without turning it on for a while and see how it goes, can take a couple of days.


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    Luckycharms_74
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    Same thing happened me just now. It fell down the toilet. I turned it off and gonna try the rice option :(


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    mel.b
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    Luckycharms_74 wrote: »
    Same thing happened me just now. It fell down the toilet. I turned it off and gonna try the rice option :(


    I hope you have more luck than I have had so far with getting it to work again


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    Luckycharms_74
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    mel.b wrote: »
    I hope you have more luck than I have had so far with getting it to work again

    Not much luck as of yet. Each time I try to power it off it powers itself back on. The battery is 50% so will be a while before it runs down. It's in the bowl of rice, but I think its fcuked :(.
    Oh its an iPhone btw. I didn't see the OP was a Samsung :(


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    Allround Predator
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    I drop my phone into a lake when fishing 3 weeks ago, it was on and in the water for a few minutes cause the water was deep and took me a while to retrieve it. When I took it out I opened the back and took the battery out of it and dried it. Didn't not turn it back on for another 3 days but when I did it work perfectly, haven't had any problems with it since then. NOKIA C3 ;)


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    Kristopherus
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    Luckycharms_74 wrote: »
    Not much luck as of yet. Each time I try to power it off it powers itself back on. The battery is 50% so will be a while before it runs down. It's in the bowl of rice, but I think its fcuked :(.
    Oh its an iPhone btw. I didn't see the OP was a Samsung :(

    Why are you hi-jacking this thread when you have your own thread opened?:rolleyes:


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    BostonB
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    Sometimes if you leave a phone for ages like a few months its comes back to life. But usually they are stuffed.


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